hillclimbing

/HH IH1 L K L IH1 M B IH0 NG/
noun
  1. 1

    (general) The act of climbing a hill.

  2. 2

    (sports) A form of motorsport in which drivers compete against the clock on an uphill course.

  3. 3

    (mathematics) A simple form of optimization that starts with an arbitrary solution to a problem, then attempts to find a better solution by incrementally changing a single element of the solution.